Biography

Bhavya Srivastava is a Assistant Professor in finance at the Jindal School of Banking & Finance, O. P. Jindal Global University. She is currently pursuing her doctorate from the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi. Her areas of interest include financial institutions and markets, corporate finance, financial accounting, banking sector competition, banking efficiency, banking regulations, and bank risk management. Her thesis investigates the level of competition as well as the economic consequences of banking sector competition in the BRICS banking sectors. Her work provides new empirical insights at the micro-level into the impact of banking sector competition on both bank stability and efficiency in the BRICS nations, set against the background of developing markets. Furthermore, her interests primarily align to the field of banking regulations and their relevance in promoting stability and efficiency in a competitive market environment. During her Ph.D. journey over four years, she has published numerous research papers in Scopus and ABDC-indexed journals (published by Elsevier and Emerald). She has received several International Travel Grants, the recent being awarded by the ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research) for presenting her work at various international conferences organized by distinguished institutions. She has also provided research support for the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology under the Union Government on a project titled “Enabling investor awareness in rural India through investor awareness program: An assessment & prognosis”.